H34C. Flying fig.22.23.24.26. (.38.)

Rice flew from the field to the house by himself.

Bondo, Lao, Thai, (Zhuang), Viet, Cham, Khmer, Banar, Malays, Southern and Southwestern China, (Japanese).

South Asia. Bondo [rice had wings; he flew to people, said he would eat them; they agreed that he would eat whoever has more names; rice has about 300 varieties, but people have the same name more; Millet promised to help Rhys, but he decided to fly away; Bhimai cut off his wings, Rhys stayed, people eat him]: Elwin 1950:142.

Burma - Indochina. Lao [one grain of rice was enough to eat, rice rolled from his ears into the man's house; the widow invited her daughter to tear down the old bins and build a new one; by the time rice ripe and rolled, the work was not finished; widow rice: can't you wait? the rice fell into a thousand grains: now let's wait in the field until people come for us and take us to the bins themselves]: Fleeson 1899:85; Thai (Vietnam) [rice flew to homes by itself; rice grains filled the widow's eyes and ears; she told them to return to the fields and stay until people came for them; the widow cut the thread that held the sky low above her head with a knife; the sky rose to return to fields and stay until you need them where it is now]: Nguyên Xuân Hiên et al. 2004:131; (cf. zhuang [herbs and trees could talk, walk and fly; if they had to cook, people called out brushwood, which would fly into the hearth; on the third day of the third lunar month (in China now it is a holiday when you can't cook, you have to eat everything cold) the woman awkwardly put a container of rice to steam it, the brushwood knocked her over; the woman went to complain to Dao; he told the plants stay in place head down, feet up, people get firewood themselves]: Nguyên Xuân Hiên et al. 2004:136); Viets: Knorozova 2000 [after the flood, the Jasper Lord sent to earth the goddess of rice Ngoc Hoang; ripe rice came into the house by himself; one girl did not sweep the yard, and the gate jammed; the rice grains turned back, she hit them; the grains were told people to collect them themselves in the field ]: 61-62; Landes 1886, No. 82 [=Coyaud 2011, No. 1A: 80; one grain was enough for a meal, rice flew into the house by itself; the lazy wife did not clean the house when her husband returned, hit the rice that flew in, it fell apart. it became like it is now]: 204; Khmers [rice flew into the barns himself; one woman hit him with a rocker arm; rice ran away and hid in the crack of the stone; the fish got in there, begged the rice to come back; people have since you have to cultivate rice]: Chesnov 2004b: 184; banar [brother and sister escaped after the flood in the drum; the ant brought two grains (or ears); the rice that grew the next day was huge, alone There was enough grain for lunch; ripe grains rushed to the barn themselves until the woman So Krok drove the rice into the field]: Chesnov 2004b:184; the tyamas [the main deity of the Tyams is the goddess Po Yan Ino Nogar ("goddess is mother states"); created the land, rice, taught people how to farm; wanting to honor the King of Heaven, she sent him a winged grain of rice into the sky, white as a cloud; he sowed it, and all varieties of rice grew out of it]: Cabaton 1901:16-17, 109-110.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Malays [Adam and Hawa have a son and two daughters; on God's advice, A. killed a son and one daughter, cut the bodies, scattered them across the field; a month later, rice was stabbed there; when A. and H. called the children by name, rice flew home]: Wilkinson 1925:21-27 in Mabuchi 1969:52.

China - Korea. Southern China [previously ripe grain rolled into the barn by itself; one person locked the door tightly during the harvest season and went to bed; the grain began to call and scream, the lazy person was indignant that the grain came at night; let it come back in the morning; the grain has refused to come by itself ever since]: Eberhard, p. 252-253 in Ho 1967, No. 179:339-340; southwestern China [rice grains were the size of chicken egg, they flew into the barn themselves; the leader's lazy mistress began to drive rice into her barn, broke off his wings with scourge; rice returned to the fields, no longer flies; in the hot summer, this woman complained that the rice is too big, hard to chew; her husband crushed rice and sowed shards; small rice has grown]: Ho 1967, No. 180:340-342; {although there are no direct instructions, the motive is likely also provided by Miao and Tibeto-Burmese people in Southern China}.

(Wed. Japan. Shigisan engi emaki [Buddhist priest Myōren from the temple in Tōdaiji had a cup that flew by herself to a rich man in Yamazaki to receive alms; one day a rich man forgot fill the cup; she moved his entire granary to the top of the mountain; the rich man agreed with the priest that 1,000 bags of rice would return and they flew back to the rich man themselves]: Matsumura 1996:120) .